Word: beckettian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...come back, in whatever form, I will be there. Because far more exciting than a goal being scored is the possibility of one. And no sport can represent the beauty of hope as well as staying awake for a goal to end a triple-overtime playoff game. By stressing Beckettian optimism, the sport has uniquely trained us to sit through a lockout. Anyway, we have no choice. You feel a little too special when you tell people you?re a curling...
...even stripped-down Wallace is epic modernism: big plots, absurd Beckettian humor and science-fiction-height ideas portrayed vis-a-vis slow, realistic stream of consciousness. In an effort to make his often bizarre endings more powerful, Wallace frequently stops stories before their climax, which sometimes improves them and sometimes makes them seem like an aborted attempt at a novel. When it works, it's part of his Pynchonesque trick of keeping the reader uncomfortable by withholding information and embedding the most devastating facts within long descriptive paragraphs...
...deadline approaches, a thesis writer finds that every aspect of life begins to resemble his or her topic in a kooky, freakish way. No more strawberry yogurt in the dining hall. Interesting, yes, the empty metal canister seems to recall the all-too-familiar Beckettian void created by the obligation to speak and the ironic knowledge that one has nothing to say. I’ll have to footnote that. I never thought that 40–60 pages of text about English literature could so completely distract me from the real world. The Olympics went by (or are going...